gerelateerde werken

Violin Concerto Nº 1: Generation : Version for violin and piano / Yip Ho Kwen Austin

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Viool en toetsinstrument
Bezetting: vn pf

4 sonatas voor orkest : (1971) / Daniel Manneke

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 4201 0300 timp perc str(6.6.3.2.0.) (or other instr)

Preambulum e variazioni : per orchestra (d'amatori) / Henk van der Vliet

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trp pf str

Symphony No. 2 : for orchestra / Erik Lotichius

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2fl 2ob 2cl 2bsn 3h 3tp 2trb timp perc str

compositie

Metamorphosis : for orchestra / Yip Ho Kwen Austin

Overige auteurs:
Yip, Austin (Componist)
Toelichting:
Artists often like to develop their works around the concept of “metamorphosis”, but the understanding of “metamorphosis” varies among people. With Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”, people often regard the title as the “change of form”, rather than an “improved change”—because the protagonist wakes up one day and realises himself being transformed into a giant insect. Such transformation differs from people’s normal understanding of the term “metamorphosis”, which is often the process to transform something from an immature state to a relatively more mature state. However, Kafka’s protagonist transforms from the family’s support into a gigantic burden in just one night. In the reader’s eyes, it seems as if the title “Metamorphosis” refers more to the transformation of the protagonist’s family, which turns well after the protagonist’s death, rather than the protagonist himself.
This work, entitled “Metamorphosis”, is to be paired up with its Chinese name, “Po Kan”, which literally means “to break through a cocoon”. It depicts the moment of how a troublesome matter resolves, and the short instance right after the process. Similar to how a worm transforms into a cocoon, and then to a butterfly, after the process of metamorphosis, the short instance of beauty gradually changes, and eventually the butterfly faces death. In Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”, the protagonist’s family seems to have a bright life after the protagonist dies, but actually no one knows what happens to them next. Nonetheless, everyone enjoys the moment of the transformation.
Austin Yip